In a photograph from 1930, an abstract bronze sculpture of two copulating figures hangs on the wall of a polished Parisian dining room. Published in the magazine Art et Industrie, it’s one of the few ...

Can the stark and bare-bone sculptures of Alberto Giacometti reveal truths about our own times? Tony Dokoupil says, yes, they can: He pushed, prodded and gouged his masterpieces into existence. But ...

Even if you do not know the name Alberto Giacometti, you’ll probably recognize his work immediately upon entering the huge new exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art that celebrates the late Swiss ...

The artistic process is something that often eludes people. It’s not only the artist’s burning desire to create that can be confusing to people, it’s the commitment to research and the drive to keep ...

Alberto Giacometti worked obsessively on super-slim sculptures that stride and slink like shadows. A Guggenheim exhibition and a new film explore... Giacometti's Sculptures Bare The Scars Of Our Daily ...

While standing before one of several stunning arrays of Giacometti’s sculpted figures, lined up like sentries in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s “Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure,” I ...

A pair of exceptionally rare Alberto Giacometti buttons, created for Elsa Schiaparelli, are making a rare showing on the ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In the early 1930s, before he turned to the attenuated heads and acid ...

Alberto Giacometti did not start making the sculptures he is famous for until he was in his mid-40s. Born in Switzerland in 1901, he had had a long and varied career: he flirted with Primitivism, ...

Alberto Giacometti, “Head of Diego on ‘La Psychanalyse'” (n.d.), ink on book page; 8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) “What I am looking for is not happiness. I work ...

The two buttons showing a naked woman raising her arms in the air were sold at Bonhams Modern Decorative Art & Design sale in ...